I'll Always Be There For You: A Big Time Rush Fan Fiction

Chapter Four

A/N: I have to announce something before you start reading, so pay attention. This story will be going on hold for a while so I can have a chance to work on my other stories. I'm hoping to continue when I hopefully atleast have Nothing Even Matters finished. That's all, enjoy!

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"I still can't believe you're back," Karmen said happily as she and her brother walked down the street.

"I know. You've said that like a million times," Kendall replied, pretending to be annoyed, "But you can't go around and tell everyone."

Karmen gave him a confused look. She really wasn't planning on telling anybody. She didn't exactly know what people would think if she just said, "hey my brother has come back from the dead and we hang out all the time now!"

Noticing his sister's reaction Kendall quickly explained, "Only you can see me."

"Oh, well that explains why Carlos couldn't see you," Karmen muttered.

"Carlos?" Kendall asked, raising his eyebrows.

"Yeah, when you were stalking me at the stop sign I asked Carlos if he saw you and he said he didn't," Karmen told him.

"Oh. Hey! I wasn't stalking you!" Kendall denied.

Karmen laughed, but the laugh turned into a shiver. She was still dripping wet from the rain, and she was cold. Kendall looked at his shivering sister with concern.

"Are you cold?" he asked, and Karmen nodded, "Well let's get you home then."

They kept walking until they came to their house and then they stopped. Karmen started walking up the driveway. Noticing that Kendall wasn't following her, she turned around and saw him standing in the exact spot he stood in the night he died.

"You coming?" she called out to him.

"Not now. You go in and change. I'll wait out here," he replied.

Karmen shrugged and went inside. She quickly ran upstairs and stripped off her drenched clothes. She put on a white tank, sweat pants, and a hoodie. Then she braided her damp hair into a single braid on the side.

When Karmen walked out the door, she saw her brother standing in that same spot on road with his hands in his pockets, staring at the ground. Karmen walked over to Kendall and stood next to him with her arms crossed, not making a sound.

Without looking up from the spot, Kendall asked in a quiet voice, "So this is where it happened?"

Karmen nodded, staring down at the spot he was looking at. As she looked at it, her mind flashed back to last week. She pictured Kendall's lifeless body lying there; the blood running down his face. He was dead, but now he was standing here perfectly alive-sort of. Karmen and Kendall kept staring at the road until someone interrupted them.

"Karmen!" Mrs. Knight shouted.

Karmen and Kendall whipped around to see their mother running toward them.

"Karmen!" she shouted again, "Where have you been? Why did you leave the funeral?"

"Mom," Kendall said quietly as he walked up to her.

Karmen looked at her mom. Then at Kendall, and then at her mom again. They were literally standing inches away from each other and her mother had no acknowledgement of his presence.

"Karmen?" her mother asked.

Karmen snapped out of her trance and looked at her mother, "Huh?"

"Did you hear me?" Mrs. Knight asked, "Why did you leave the funeral?"